BEST RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES *** Produced by David Starner, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreaders Team [Illustration: ANTON P. CHEKHOV, RUSSIA'S GREATEST SHORT-STORY WRITER] BEST RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES Compiled and Edited by THOMAS SELTZER CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE QUEEN OF SPADES _A.S. Pushkin_ THE CLOAK _N.V. Gogol_ THE DISTRICT DOCTOR _I.S. Turgenev_ THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND THE WEDDING _F.M. Dostoyevsky_ GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS _L.N. Tolstoy_ HOW A MUZHIK FED TWO OFFICIALS _M.Y. Saltykov_ THE SHADES, A PHANTASY _V.G. Korolenko_ THE SIGNAL _V.N. Garshin_ THE DARLING _A.P. Chekhov_ THE BET _A.P. Chekhov_ VANKA _A.P. Chekhov_ HIDE AND SEEK _F.K. Sologub_ DETHRONED _I.N. Potapenko_ THE SERVANT _S.T. Semyonov_ ONE AUTUMN NIGHT _M. Gorky_ HER LOVER _M. Gorky_ LAZARUS _L.N. Andreyev_ THE REVOLUTIONIST _M.P. Artzybashev_ THE OUTRAGE _A.I. Kuprin_ INTRODUCTION Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleri...
